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Chapter 26: The Ghost Train
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The Twelve Scions Chapter 27: Moonless Night at 13th
"Len, wake up! He's doing it again."Len hadn't even fall asleep when Lars so rudely shook him around. He got up and watched Lars peeking outside through the blinds of their room window. This had been quite an obsession of Lars for some time, and Len was none too happy about it."Maybe he just going off to the bar or something.""No, he's definitely going to that place again tonight." Lars rushed to the wardrobe, quickly grabbed his black leather jacket and threw Len a few hoodies. "Come on, quick! Let's follow him! You don't have any reason to say no now."Len grumbled but he put on his dull gray hoodie anyway. Before then, he could always hide behind the pretense of needing to sleep early for school, but since they have recently graduated, Len had no excuse. Hence, that night, Len decided to humor Lars' obsession for once.Lars and Len lived in a modest suburban neighborhood of Algedi outskirts. That means their nights had been mostly quiet and people always knew whose car
The Twelve Scions Chapter 28: Unfinished Business
"Wow, honestly, y'all really do be asking for it."Vayu's little remark was met with a playful jab by pouting Len. Lars was entertained with that though, and his little chuckle showed that. Before Antares, everything was such a mess in their family and it snowballed from the death of their father.Lars was spacing out so Vayu slightly tilted his head to found his eyes. "So are you going to run for the next... I don't know, a hundred years later? When those people who chase you would be too old by then?"Lars hummed, his eyes slowly darted everywhere. "What do you suggest we do?"Vayu made a neck slicing gesture that successfully froze Lars in place. If Lars had to admit, that dark curiosity intruded his mind sometimes, but never once he thought of actually doing it."B - But I thought you said - ""Well, exception definitely applies if someone put us in jeopardy.""I'm not sure I can do that," Lars said. "Have you?""Way before I'm a Scion, even. It's just the good ole'
The Twelve Scions Chapter 29: Salvation
Lars watched every movement on the warehouse like a hawk setting sight on a prey. He wanted to go in but the guards were all over the place. Something was different about them this time as they were all more well equipped with tactical gears and firearms. Lars wondered, but he didn't give up and circled the area for potential opening.By luck, Lars came across a lone patrol guard walking around in the maze of containers. He ambushed the guard with a mean right hook. The guard knocked out instantly. Lars had afraid his amplified strength might kill him, but as he stripped down the guard, he was relieved to heard him breathing.Lars put on everything the guard offered and seamlessly blended in with the guards. Dressed in all black, with tactical gears of protective vests, night vision goggles, and carrying an automatic rifle. Lars walked around in that gear for a while. His heart stopped every time he locked eyes with another guards but he chided himself that the disguise works.Ev
The Twelve Scions Chapter 30: Fire and Light
After the MSC people in suits and robes were evacuated, the warehouse's steel gates slammed shut. The guards were diminished and the panicked crowd pushed through them, banging the closed gate and screaming. Everything happened so quickly and so hectic, Lars could barely register that he was alone and right in the den of enemy."Didn't expect to see a Scion here! What a lovely surprise!"The girl tilted her head and smiled so wide she struck fear in Lars' heart. Her cape moved on its own, erected and spread out, morphing into gigantic moth wings with hypnotic eye pattern. She took flight, her wings fluttering and her hands blazing with fire. "Axylia, finish it quick!"A masculine raspy voice of her companion, the humanoid crab Prime Chimera, called out. His pincers were snapping about threateningly. Lars' eyes darted between the crab creature and the flying moth girl Axylia. He could feel the bloodlust from their stares."Lighten up, Brachyura. We have all night long and he'
The Twelve Scions Chapter 31: True God
A loud noise shattered the silence of that particular night in Algedi harbor. Vayu and Len perked up from the noise and the commotion that followed it. With a single leap, Vayu got up on one of the container and overlooked the smoke that came from a big white warehouse across the port.It was only then when Vayu could feel everything. The presence of Lars' Scion Force, numerous presence of people all in the state of panic and high adrenaline, and the presence of those brimming with silverstream. Vayu was taken aback of the irregularity.Vayu leapt down and went to Len. "Len, I need you to stay here. Got it?""Please save him, Vay. I have a bad feeling about this," Len said."Don't worry. I've made some calls earlier." Vayu did not wait for Len's further response and he took off by leaping across the containers.Vayu's mind was racing during his way to the warehouse. How could such strong energy presence go undetected? Vayu had known about himself well enough to know the wareh
The Twelve Scions Chapter 32: Lyme Belle Theatre
When Lars opened his eyes, an unfamiliar ceiling greeted him. The bedroom he was in was strangely lavish, golden - hued with mahogany furniture around the bed. He got himself out of the thick maroon blanket that smothered him and stood up, looking around.Lars was only wearing his star necklace and a pair of boxer red shorts. No piece of other clothing was ready for him in the room. He tentatively got out of the door and found himself in a balcony corridor overlooking an ocean of red suede seats. Lars scratched his head, dumbfounded of how he woke up in a theatre.Images from the warehouse fight surged through Lars' mind and his breath hitched. He brushed himself with death again that time. He didn't remember the outcome but he did remember seeing Vayu. He remembered the tranquil fury that flashed on Vayu's eyes."Why, aren't you a real heavy sleeper."As if he could tell Lars was thinking about him, Vayu showed up from the dark corridor with arms outstretched. They were locked
The Twelve Scions Chapter 33: Promise
Lars wanted his mother to talk right away but she apparently wasn't too keen to begin. After a while, she finally emerged from the dark and sat down on one of the seats. She looked up in expectation that Lars would join her, but at that moment, there was an anger that made him refuse to be kind to her."I've done this before but I still don't know where to begin," she said softly."Start by telling me what are you doing back there. Why are you with them?""I had no choice, alright? I was just focusing my career on MSC until I'm suddenly roped in to Magnus' murderous cult of Silver Sovereign. He was the one behind everything and I was... I was too stupidly in love to say no to him."Lars couldn't imagine doing this to his mother, but that time, he made a disgusted face towards her. "How long have this been going on? What have you done with them?""Even before me, before Magnus, it has been going on far longer than you could possibly imagine, Lars. They are an ancient cultish o
The Twelve Scions Chapter 34: Insignificance
For a week, Len had developed a new habit during his stay in Lyme Belle Theatre. He always got up early in the morning when the sky was still pale blue, had a little jog in the forest path nearby, and ended up on the hill where his family used to go camping.On that hill, Len always sat on a specific fallen log to rest. In those moments of quietness, Len always enjoyed the chilly morning air as he watched the morning sun ascending. The hill overlooked a state road where it would lead back to Algedi outskirts or Rukbat few miles away south.Len recollected his pleasant memories of the hill every time he went there. He would remember the exact spot where his father would light their bonfire, which trees where his mother would put on their hammock, and how Lars and him always ran around there playing tag with uninhibited excitement.On that morning, it was slightly different than Len's usual routine as he got a company coming. His mother showed up from the forest path, her every ste
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